 | South Carolina. Supreme Court, James Sanders Guignard Richardson (Reporter), Robert Wallace Shand (Reporter), Cyprian Melanchton Efird (Reporter), William Hay Townsend, Duncan C. Ray (Reporter), William Munro Shand (Reporter) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 650 pages
...Natural Carbonic Gas Co., 220 US 61, 31 Sup. Ct. 337, 55 L. Ed. 369, Ann. Cas. 1912c, 160: "(1) The equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment...State the power to classify in the adoption of police law, but admits of the exercise of a wide scope of discretion in that regard, and avoids what is done... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 1184 pages
...wide discretion in classifying according to general, rather than minute, distinctions, and condemns what is done only when it is without any reasonable basis, and therefore is purely arbitrary. Like classifications of railroad carriers and employes for like purposes, when assailed under the equal... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 956 pages
...state or a municipal corporation the power to classify in the adoption of police laws or regulations, but admits of the exercise of a wide scope of discretion...regard, and avoids what is done only when it is without reasonable basis, and is therefore purely arbitrary, and one who assails the classification in such... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1060 pages
...Constitution, the following rules have been adopted by the Supreme Court of the United States: "L The equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment...state the power to classify in the adoption of police ii'.vs, but admits of the exercise of a wide scope uf discretion in that regard, and avoids what is... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1914 - 812 pages
...regarded at cornclassifying according to the general, rather than minute, distinctions, and condemns what is done only when it is without any reasonable basis, and therefore is purely arbitrary." 36 "All persons, firms and corporations engaged as employers in any of the hazardous occupations hereafter... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1068 pages
...Constitution, the following rules have been adopted by the Supreme Court of the United States : "(1) The equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment...when it Is without any reasonable basis and therefore le purely arbitrary. (2) A classification having some reasonable basis does not offend against that... | |
 | Joseph Asbury Joyce - Antitrust law - 1911 - 870 pages
...following propositions have been shown by repeated decisions of the Federal Supreme Court: (a) The equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment...that regard, and avoids what is done only when it is done without any reasonable basis and therefore is purely arbitrary. (b) A classification having some... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1286 pages
...Devanter, in Lindsley v. NC Gas Co., 220 US 61, 31 Sup. Ct. 337, 55 L. Ed. 369: "(1) The equal-protection clause of the fourteenth amendment does not take from...wide scope of discretion in that regard, and avoids wnat Is done only, when it is without any reasonable basis, and therefore is purely arbitrary. (2)... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1254 pages
...this contention must be tested, as is shown by repeated decisions of this court, are these: (1) The equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment...the state the power to classify in the adoption of роИсе laws, but admits of the exercise of a wide scope of discretion in that regard, and avoids... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 880 pages
...wide discretion in classifying according to general, rather than minute, distinctions, and condemns what is done only when it is without any reasonable basis, and therefore is purely arbitrary. Lindsley v. Carbonic Gas Co., 220 US 61, 78. Tested by these standards, this classification is not... | |
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The equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment does not take from the State the power to classify in the adoption of police laws, but admits of the exercise of a wide scope of discretion in that regard, and avoids what is done only when it is... 
